# Nikhil Doifode

> Staff Software Engineer at Merciv | Ex-Samsung

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhildoifode

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Merciv
Jan 2026 – Present
- Leading backend platform initiatives that turn ambiguous product needs into scalable systems.
- Partnering closely with product/business to shape direction as we scale into enterprise integrations (for knowledge + data partnerships).

### Senior Software Engineer @ Merciv
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | New York, NY
- Owned core platform initiatives from concept -> architecture -> production, focusing on scalable foundations for agentic workflows and orchestration
- Developed platform foundations for retrieval + tooling (RAG), improving modularity, and extensibility.
- Focused on reliability, operability, and clean interfaces, shipping systems that are maintainable under startup pace

### Senior Software Engineer @ TBL Technologies
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
- Created a scalable system architecture for data collection, storage, and management for the Orion platform, which collects data from building systems and sensors and manages them
- Lead the backend development of devices data management, demand response, automation, integration with third-party services, metrics generation, notifications, and several other modules

### Software Engineer II @ TBL Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Manhattan, New York, United States

### Research and Innovation Intern @ InterDigital, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
- Worked on AdvantEDGE platform that provides an emulation environment to enable experimentation and explore deployment models of Edge/Fog Computing Technologies, Applications, and Services.
- Contributed to ETSI MEC Sandbox portal development

### Lead Engineer @ Samsung India
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
- Developed Warden Service front-end and back-end for the management of IoT Products, their Metadata, and Users registered on SmartThings App.
- This service is used in Samsung across multiple IoT Divisions as well as by the Third Party Vendors to introduce their IoT Devices in Samsung Ecosystem

### Software Engineer @ Samsung India
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF):
- Spearheaded code design, development, and review process for the OCF standard implementation for Samsung Digital Appliances
- Contributed to the Smart Home Project in OCF standard as part of a global taskforce.
- Designed and developed code for Request handling, Resource creation, and deletion, first-time device setup (EasySetup), Remote Management, Demand Response (DR) based on OpenADR, Hass Remote Management (HRM) 2.0, Over the Network (OTN) manager on TizenRT RTOS in C running on the Samsung Artik platform in a resource-constrained environment for Smart Samsung Appliances.
- This project got commercialized in Samsung Air purifier, Air Conditioner, Refrigerator, etc. appliances in a short amount of time. DR service is deployed in South Korea with Korean Power Exchange (KPX) which helps users save (10-15K Won) on their electricity bill monthly

Smart Home Protocol (SHP) SDK:
- Development of the SHP SDK and Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0 project for the Samsung Digital Appliances Team
- Implemented Device Discovery with mDNS, Demand Response (DR) in C for SEP 2.0 library on ThreadX RTOS in C running on Broadcom chipset in a resource-constrained environment.
- This project got commercialized in the Samsung Air purifier.

### Software Development Intern @ Samsung India
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Bengaluru Area, India
- Created an application prototype of an Indoor Positioning System (IPS) to locate a user inside the house with 75% accuracy and proposed use cases for it in energy management and home automation scenarios.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-doifode-70420379

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Last updated: 2026-04-01